Re: Chomping most of a _long

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Re^2: Chomping most of a _long_ text string by RupertSw (Initiate) on May 29, 2005 at 15:58 UTC
That'll be fine on a long bit of text? I got the impression you were supposed to avoid REs on > ~1kb bits of text. In which case, thanks a lot, and I'll shut up and get on with it! Rupert	[reply]
Re^3: Chomping most of a _long_ text string by ysth (Canon) on May 29, 2005 at 17:06 UTC
That should be `s/^.+?_{70}//s`.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Chomping most of a _long_ text string by holli (Abbot) on May 29, 2005 at 16:00 UTC
No, regexes scale well with long strings. holli, /regexed monk/	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Chomping most of a _long_ text string by RupertSw (Initiate) on May 29, 2005 at 21:22 UTC
My goodness! Far more replies than I expected! Regexes are working wonderfully for me, and I'm pleased to say I got the anti-greediness question mark trick myself (but went to work as a waiter, hence not thanking all the replies earlier) What I was actually parsing was a mailbox full of past issues of @Risk, a security list. My code now has a loop doing something like this: `$$email =~ s/^.+?_{70}\n\n([[:digit:]])/$1/s; while($$email =~ /(\d{2}\.\d+\.\d) CVE: ([^\n]+)\nPlatform: ([^\n]+)\n +Title: ([^\n]+)\nDescription: (.+?)\nRef: (http[^\n]*)/gs) { print "CVE: $2\nPlat: $3\nTitle: $4\nDesc: $5\nURL: $6\n\n"; }` [download] And, yes, I have yet to tidy up the RE, but it works and is more than fast enough for what I need. Many thanks again Rupert	[reply] [d/l]